Using project reader from console

This entails running project_reader module in console python -m project.read. It takes one positional argument and two other optional arguments. The positional argument is the path of the project.

python -m project.read "C:\Users\admin\django projects\blog-site"

Optional one is the folders to ignore in a comma-separated string.

python -m project.read "C:\Users\admin\django projects\blog-site" --ignore ".idea, .vscode"

Optional two is the final output file.

python -m project.read "C:\Users\admin\django projects\blog-site" --output "blog_site_tree.txt"

OR

python -m project.read "C:\Users\admin\django projects\blog-site" --ignore ".idea, .vscode" --output "blog_site_tree.txt"

This will output a file a tree visualizing you project.

Go ahead and run the line below to learn more

python -m project.read -h

Using project reader in python code or from the interpreter

You can choose to use from the interpreter or in your code using the help of project.folder_reader.py and project.folder_visualizer.py

Folder visualizer (project.folder_visualizer.py)

Example 1

question_1.py - 38
question_2(factorial).py - 66
question_21.py - 45
.IDEA
github projects 2.iml - 11
misc.xml - 5
modules.xml - 9
workspace.xml - 17
DICTIONARIES
muremwa.xml - 5
---- END OF DICTIONARIES ----
---- END OF .IDEA ----
DESC

Run the code below

from project.folder_visualizer import assign_classes, draw


klasses = assign_classes('test_FOLDER_GITHUB_PROJECTS_2.txt')
draw(klasses, file_name="results.txt")

This is the output in “results.txt”

Example 2

GITHUB_PROJECTS_2
|
|---- question_1.py (38 lines)
|
|---- question_2(factorial).py (66 lines)
|
|---- question_21.py (45 lines)
|
|---- .IDEA
|          |
|          |---- github projects 2.iml (11 lines)
|          |
|          |---- misc.xml (5 lines)
|          |
|          |---- modules.xml (9 lines)
|          |
|          |---- workspace.xml (17 lines)
|          |
|          |---- DICTIONARIES
|          |         |
|          |         |---- muremwa.xml (5 lines)
|
|---- DESC

Folder reader (project.folder_reader.py)

Contains the following classes:

1. KillerFolder - extends the Folder class from project.folder_visualizer.py but adds the following methods (eq) and statement and the path property.

2. KillerFile - extends the File class from project.folder_visualizer.py but adds the path property

3. FolderStore - extends the in-built list class. It stores only KillerFolder objects.

4. RootDoesNotExist - an exception that is raised when one tries to access the root KillerFolder object of a FolderStore object that has none.

Contains the following functions:

1. kill_project - takes in a path of the folder to read, reads and returns a string representative of the files and folders similar to [example 1](#Example 1) above. You can add a keyword argument called ignore to show what folders to ignore.

2. print_statement - takes the statement from kill_project and writes it to a file and returns the name of that file. Usually FOLDER_SOMETHING.txt

Using project.folder_reader.py (demonstrated using the folder names TOP)

import os
from project.folder_reader import kill_project, print_statement

# change into the folder you want to read
os.chdir(os.getcwd() + "\\TOP")

# get the statement
statement = kill_project(os.getcwd(), ignore=['.vscode', '.idea'])

# write the statement to a file
file_name = print_statement(statement)  # the file_name can be passes into folder_visualizer.assign_classes()

The last line writes to a file called “FOLDER_TOP.txt”

file.txt - 1
VO
s.txt - 1
KO
l1.txt - 1
---- END OF KO ----
---- END OF VO ----
XO
n.txt - 1
BO
temp.txt - 1
---- END OF BO ----
JO
sd.txt - 1
PO
l.txt - 1
---- END OF PO ----
---- END OF JO ----
---- END OF XO ----

Notice how the folder ‘.idea’ was ignored.